I decided to review Wild Card and Ghoul Goblin together, because they are a good contrast in what you should and shouldn’t do when expanding a series into graphic novels. Wild Card This is my first foray into The Dresden Files comic book universe. Wild Card takes place after White Night. if you are new to the Dresden Files, this is not the place to start. Someone is trying to destabilize Chicago. They want the police to think the White Court is killing humans, the White Court to think Gentleman John Marcone is coming after them, and Marcone to think the police are […]

Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6) by Jim Butcher

So far on this Dresden Files re-read of mine, I’ve liked all the books better (some significantly so). But this one gave me feeeeelings. I mean, I mostly remembered it for the Harry-goes-undercover-on-the-set-of-a-porno plot, so to say that these feeeeelings were unexpected was a bit of an understatement. So Harry goes undercover on the set of a porno! His White Court vampire acquaintance, Thomas, has asked him for a favor, to take the director on as a client, to protect the cast and crew from an evil eye curse that is taking people out. And this wouldn’t be a Dresden […]

Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) by Jim Butcher

I never actually wrote a review of this book the first time around, just a few quick sentences. I don’t remember why. I was probably just being lazy. This is what I wrote back in December 2010: “I’m still waiting to be knocked off my feet by this series, but this book was still pretty fun. Also, Susan was way less annoying, ditto for Gentleman Johnny Marcone. The best part was when Thomas offered to high-five Ortega right before the duel. There needs to be more Thomas.” I still hold to what I said about Thomas, but oh man, re-reading this was […]

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

This re-read has been a success so far. Weird, but good weird. It was weird revisiting the first three books, which I originally didn’t like enough to continue the series, on audio for the first time. I knew that James Marsters was a huge part of the reason I ended up liking this series so much, but I don’t think I realized just how much until starting this re-read. I liked the first three books more on re-read in large part because I’m invested in this world and these characters now, but it’s also just super fun to listen to […]

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Storm Front by Jim Butcher

And with this I reach my Cannonball! I honestly never thought I’d be so fast (last year it took until December for me to reach it). Now I can take slow down a little and pick up a few of the longer books I have waiting next to my bed (and on my audible playlist). There’s a fair amount of you around these parts that read The Dresden Files, and the audio as well is super popular. It came up on sale on audible, and as I thought I’d try it as it seemed like something that both myself and […]

Working for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files, #15.5) by Jim Butcher

This is a fun little novella/short story collection set in the Dresdenverse. Three linked short stories are included here, taking place at varying times throughout Harry’s history. “B is for Bigfoot” takes place after Fool Moon, “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot” occurs after Dead Beat, and “Bigfoot on Campus” is sandwiched between Turn Coat and Changes, so the Harry in this collection is the Harry from Before, still working as a wizard PI. All in all, I found this book to be a fun, light read. I’m not normally a fan of short stories because my favorite part of reading […]

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Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) by Jim Butcher

The continuing adventures of Ashley/narfna re-reading The Dresden Files in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . PARTY. I’m not sure exactly why I thought this book was better than the first one when I read it seven (seven! gross, that’s so many) years ago, but if you care to read my initial review, which I have included in the parentheses following this sentence, you’ll see that was indeed the case. (Original review from August 2009: “Better than the first one. I’m hanging in there. (More detailed thoughts to come after I finish #3.)) You can also see that […]

Storm Front (Dresden Files, #1) by Jim Butcher

If you read my reviews regularly, you’ll probably know how much I love The Dresden Files, but that I initially didn’t like it very much, to the point where I gave up after reading book three way back in 2009. I just didn’t think the series was for me. That I thought that at the time is alternately hilarious and horrifying. I almost didn’t pick this series back up, and so I almost missed out on what has turned out to be more and more of a favorite series as it goes on. So I’ve been meaning to revisit these […]